Conversation With Campos

Editor’s note: Mission Local is resuming its biweekly conversations with District 9 Supervisor David Campos, addressing issues and events in the Mission. If you have questions for Campos, send an email to missionlocal@gmail.com.

Mission Local: Condo conversion has come up again recently, as legislative proposals have been made to help people who have tenancy-in-common convert their spaces to condos in order to have full ownership over that unit. But tenants’ rights advocates fear that speculation and unbridled conversions would threaten rent control in San Francisco. What are the problems here that need to be fixed?

David Campos:The condo conversion process has been in place for quite some time. And there have been since that time limitations on the number of units that can be converted into condos [in the city], and the proposal that has been put forward would allow for folks to bypass the lottery and pay the city so that they can basically convert the unit. That is something that has been tried in the past and there are very strong opinions, but the proposal by Supervisors Farrell and Wiener would allow for more than 200 condo conversions to [be] allowed each year. Read more from David Campos HERE.